Slipper-sole.



M. E. SCHENKE;

SLIPPER SOLE.

APPLICATION mu) MAY 21, 1915.

1,208,668.. Patented Dec. 12,1916.

MAX E. SCHENKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SLIPPER-SOLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

Application filed May 27, 1915. Serial No. 30,709.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX E. SCHENKE, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slipper-Soles, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to soles provided as an article of manufacture for use with slippers or light shoes, and the object of my invention is to provide a sole of simple and cheap construction and to which the upper can be quickly, neatly and conveniently attached.

WVith this object in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully specified and set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a top plan view of the sole; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross section of the sole and a part of the shoe upper and Fig. 4 is a perspective section of a part of the sole.

The main sole is composed of a piece of leather (1 or any other strong and flexible material to the inner or upper face of which a stiffening layer of fiber b or the like is glued or otherwise affixed. The piece of leather is made wider than the stifiening part b and the marginal portion a all around the stiffening part Z) is adapted to be turned so as to overlap or lie flatly over the stiffening part b. As it is not desired to fasten the upturned marginal part a to the stiffener b in order that the upper may be conveniently, quickly and neatly fastened to Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the it, there must be appropriate means provided whereby the part a can be turned around the edge of the part b and be securedly held in position. I found that this can be best effected by making use of a form of chain stitching a which I provide around the edge of the marginal part a. The stitching is so arranged that one of its longitudinal threads (4 extends along and above the edge a of the part a so that when its free ends a, a are being pulled upon, the efiect will be that the upper edge of the marginal part a will be contracted and the lat ter drawn over the edge of the part I) overlapping the same. On subsequently tying the ends a a to one another, the upturned posi tion of the part a is permanently secured. Thus, while the part a is held flatly over the part Z), it is flexible or yielding enough to allow of the quick, neat and convenient at-' tachment of the upper 0 to it.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

As an article of manufacture, a sole for slippers, consisting of an outer piece, a stiffening piece of smaller size than and glued to the former, and a trimming around the edge of the marginal part of said outer piece serving to reinforce the latter and consisting of a row of stitches, of which one of the longitudinal threads extends around said edge and serves as a draw string.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MAX E. SCHENKE.

Witnesses:

MAX D. ORDMANN, E. BURNHAM.

Commissioner of Patents,

.. Washington, D. G. 

